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The Wall Street Journal

American business-focused daily newspaper

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Dec 15, 2025
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What evidence supports claims that Jeffrey Epstein worked with Mossad?

Allegations that Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel’s Mossad rest on decades of reported contacts with Israeli figures (notably former PM Ehud Barak), leaked emails and investigative pieces that claim ...

Jan 25, 2026
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Have any ICE agents been shot or seriously injured recently in Minnesota, or other areas of tension in the USA?

There is no reporting in the provided sources that agents have been shot or seriously injured in the recent wave of confrontations in ; instead the documentation shows multiple fatal shootings of civi...

Dec 13, 2025
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Did bill Clinton dodge the draft

Bill Clinton did not serve in Vietnam and took steps in 1968–69 to avoid induction that critics called "draft dodging," but reporters and government reviews since the 1990s have concluded he did not c...

Dec 22, 2025

What forensic handwriting evidence, if any, has been made public regarding the alleged Trump entry in Epstein’s 2003 birthday book?

Publicly available forensic handwriting evidence about the alleged Donald Trump entry in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2003 “birthday book” is limited to media-published comparisons, commentary from a small numbe...

Dec 21, 2025

Silverstein earned money on insurance of WTC

Larry Silverstein did receive large insurance payments related to the destruction of the World Trade Center and ultimately collected a series of settlements that totaled about $4.55 billion to cover l...

Nov 28, 2025

Which Fortune 500 CEOs in 2025 are Jewish and which companies do they lead?

Available sources list several high-profile business leaders of Jewish heritage (for example Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell and Steve Ballmer) but none of the pr...

Dec 7, 2025

Did Barack Obama ever meet Jeffrey Epstein and when did those meetings occur?

Available public records and recent document dumps show email and calendar links between Jeffrey Epstein and several people who served in or around the Obama administration — notably former White Hous...

Nov 26, 2025

Who is 'Peggy' in media reports mentioning Trump and what is her full name and background?

Media coverage of the Air Force One exchange on Nov. 14 centers on whether President Trump called a Bloomberg reporter “piggy” or said “Peggy” — a debate that pits multiple news organizations against ...

Nov 10, 2025

What were the top-ranked trustworthy news outlets in 2024 surveys?

The most consistent finding across the provided 2024 surveys is that , while sensational and partisan outlets like the National Enquirer, Infowars, and Breitbart sat near the bottom on net trust measu...

Jan 30, 2026

Which victims or witnesses have publicly accused Trump or Mar-a-Lago staff of running a brothel, and are their statements corroborated?

Several anonymous and named complaints in the so‑called “” allege parties and sex‑for‑payment activity at Mar‑a‑Lago; a handful of former Mar‑a‑Lago employees have told reporters the club sent spa wor...

Dec 3, 2025

least biased news

No news outlet is wholly without bias; reputable evaluators and surveys identify a set of outlets that are consistently seen as “least biased” by methodology-driven rating groups and public polls (for...

Jan 14, 2026

What is the best source for objective unbiased news

No single outlet can be declared the definitive "best" source of objective, unbiased news; multiple legacy wire services and public broadcasters are repeatedly recommended as among the least partisan ...

Dec 17, 2025

EU warned Trump it would liquidate U.S. Treasury bonds if he supports Putin

The claim that “the EU warned Trump it would liquidate U.S. Treasury bonds if he supports Putin” is not supported by definitive public evidence; sensational reporting in outlets like the Daily Express...

Nov 16, 2025

What are the most popular right-leaning news sources in the US?

Most surveys and rankings identify a set of repeat names as the most popular right‑leaning U.S. news sources: Fox News (especially for cable), Breitbart, Newsmax, Tucker Carlson Network, and newer dig...

Oct 7, 2025

why did bari weiss quit the WSJ and NYT

Bari Weiss left The New York Times in 2020 after publishing an open resignation letter in which she argued that , and she subsequently founded The Free Press to pursue stories she believed were ignore...

Dec 13, 2025

Steve Witkoff and Jared Corey Kushner are suspected of pursing business deals with aggressor Russia to enrich the Trump family at the expense of Ukraine.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin for nearly five hours on Dec. 2 as part of U.S. efforts to press a peace plan for Ukraine and then briefed President...

Dec 9, 2025

What evidence supports the claim that Russians planned plane explosions en route to the USA from Europe?

Western and European intelligence agencies publicly tied a series of incendiary parcel incidents and arrests in 2024 to a suspected Russian sabotage campaign that tested methods for placing explosives...

Dec 4, 2025

Has Noam Chomsky publicly commented on Jeffrey Epstein or his crimes?

Noam Chomsky has been publicly linked to Jeffrey Epstein through documents released in November 2025 showing years of contact, an undated letter of support attributed to Chomsky that praises Epstein’s...

Nov 16, 2025

What are the sources of the Bill Gates pedophile allegations?

Allegations linking Bill Gates to pedophilia mainly stem from his well‑documented contacts with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reports that Epstein threatened to expose an alleged affair, and...

Oct 19, 2025

What is the political affiliation of the Murdoch family, owners of Fox News?

The Murdoch family is widely identified with conservative political causes and actors, and Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings — including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal — have a long record of supp...